Sylvia
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a story can’t engage readers without the electricity that illuminates the plot, the voice, and the talent, bringing them to life. The question is: what, specifically, generates that juice? The answer is: it flows directly from how the
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“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― The Glass Castle
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― The Glass Castle
“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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